We have hosted our website and blog for the last few years on an Amazon VM with 512MB RAM and 1 vCPU. Although we have tested Phalcon in various low end environments, (such as 0.25GB RAM, 0.5 CPU), the hardware that you will choose will depend on the your application needs. Phalcon is designed to use as little resources as possible, while offering high performance. Similarly, using a PostgreSql database with Phalcon requires the php_pgsql extension. If your RDBMS is MySQL/MariaDB or Aurora, you will need the php_mysqlnd extension also. When in need for database connectivity and access, you will need to install the php_pdo extension.
However certain components rely on additional extensions to work. Since Phalcon is loosely coupled, it exposes functionality without the need for additional extensions.
Using Pecl this extension will be automatically installed. If that is the case, choose a high number for Phalcon (e.g. NOTE: You will need the PSR 1.0 extension installed.Īlternatively some distributions add a number prefix on ini files.
